Welcoming and visiting
Welcome at the Mother House, and visits to the elderly, the sick, the isolated and the bereaved.
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Eighteen sisters in Valais: the Mother House in Sion, and small communities in the parishes nearby.
After the classroom
For close to a century, the Ursulines of Sion ran the girls’ orphanage, the teacher training college and domestic science schools across the canton. After years devoted to educating the young, most of them took up a mission in parish or diocesan ministry — often as retirement drew near.
The form of the commitment changed, not its nature. From the Mother House as from the parish communities, the sisters go on walking alongside people: children, young adults, the elderly, families who have come from elsewhere.
Preparing for the sacraments
Sacramental preparation, liturgy, the school of prayer, and Church movements.
Teaching French, walking alongside
French classes for newcomers, support for pupils and for asylum seekers.
Serving the parish
Taking part in the pastoral teams and choirs of the parishes nearby.
“To care for whatever is true, noble, just, pure and lovely, so that every value may be given to the glory of God.”
The ConstitutionsLiving the fraternity of the Gospel
In a pluralist world, the Constitutions encourage the sisters to assume the best of others. They learn to discover the riches of different cultures, nationalities, religions and generations. That discovery continues in welcome, in listening, in dialogue — and in the difficulties to be overcome in order to meet another person truthfully.
The community tries to form a core from which human relationships grow. At the threshold of each pastoral year, it asks itself what answers it owes the people it meets: “I was hungry… I was thirsty… I was a stranger” (Mt 25:35-36).
The communities
Where the sisters live, in Valais
- Sion — the Mother House
- Bramois
- Hérémence
- Montana-Village
- Platta
The house in Sion
Come through the door
The Marian chapel is open for services and for personal prayer. Rooms are available for days of reflection and for preparation for the sacraments.
Address and contactThe two other chapters
The mission continues elsewhere
Thirty-seven sisters in Côte d’Ivoire, five in Guinea. The same commitment to education, other needs, other means.
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